Figured Bottle (Calabash)

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Figured Bottle (Calabash)

Manufacturer Whitney Brothers Glass Works (American)

Place of OriginGlassboro, New Jersey, United States

Date1851-1855

Dimensions10 1/4 in. (26 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.431

Not on View

DescriptionLight aquamarine coloring. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-102) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a three-quarter profile bust of Jenny Lind surrounded by a laurel wreath. On the reverse: a glasshouse. Collar applied and tooled. The base is plain except for a barely visible moldmark and a rough, open pontil mark. Capacity: one quart.

Published ReferencesBarber, Edwin Atlee, American Glassware, Old and New: A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual for Collectors of Historical Bottles, Philadelphia, Patterson and White, 1900, p. 75, no. 71.

McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.I-102, p. 532, no. 102, pp. 467-468.

Pepper, Adeline, The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, New York, Scribner's, 1971, pp. 36-44.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-102, pp. 549, 90-93, 465-469.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 132, no. 97.